They came for the condemned man on the stroke of midnight. But for Charles Elroy Laplace there was no slap-up last supper of the type served on Death Row in America, nor the company of a reassuring pastor.

Instead, he was bound hand and foot and cast on to a grubby mattress in the corner of his fetid cell, then left for eight hours to contemplate his impending fate.

Paralysed and rendered incontinent with fear, Laplace lay there all night, begging the Lord for mercy and pleading for

But his wretched entreaties were drowned out by the singing of his prison guards, who saw fit to celebrate his coming execution with a rum-fuelled 'gallows party' that lasted long into the small hours.

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He murdered his wife incidentally.

The hangman usually gives out massages on the beach for 30 quid a throw. He was paid 1,800 to act as hangman for this execution. A further 8 inmates are "penciled" in.

Thats half of the problem nowadays Ricksaw unfortunately. Too many do gooders wailing about human rights and all that palaver.
Left to them we would be tucking convicts up in bed with a bedtime story and a cup of cocoa!

1 SAVES MONEY (gordon take note)No expensive prison costs for x years
2 Justice will be served
3 Proper deterent

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4. Televise executions on a Saturday just after the Lottery and sell advertising time Superbowl style which would actually make money.
5. Have the previous week's lottery winner choose the "first" when there is more than 1 person to be executed.

1 SAVES MONEY (gordon take note)No expensive prison costs for x years
2 Justice will be served
3 Proper deterent

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4. Televise executions on a Saturday just after the Lottery and sell advertising time Superbowl style which would actually make money.
5. Have the previous week's lottery winner choose the "first" when there is more than 1 person to be executed.

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Some sort of Gladiators programme where the winner gets commuted to life.

1 SAVES MONEY (gordon take note)No expensive prison costs for x years
2 Justice will be served
3 Proper deterent

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4. Televise executions on a Saturday just after the Lottery and sell advertising time Superbowl style which would actually make money.
5. Have the previous week's lottery winner choose the "first" when there is more than 1 person to be executed.

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I LIKE IT!

Big Brother style vote off except the chair in the diary room is old sparky !